I have photos of all the graves at Old Bethel Cemetery near Frankston. Contact me directly. I'll be happy to share and do my part! Janie Healer Davis Sweetwater, TX -----Original Message----- From: Beverly Odom [mailto:bevodom@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 6:59 PM To: TXANDERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [[TXANDERS]] ETGS request New Cemetery Photo Preservation Committee Calling all volunteers! A new Cemetery Preservation Committee is being formed. Currently small in members, the focus will be to preserve information on the tombstones. Two USGenweb sites are sponsored by ETGS. Our goal is to clean all of the tombstones, take digital pictures of them and create a new survey, using data from the photos. This information will be made available to the genealogical community at large. Check out the Smith County USGenweb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/smith/tsphotos/smithph.html to see a number of cemeteries already photographed. In contrast, look at Anderson County's USGenweb page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/anderson/tsphotos/andersnph.htm where few photos are available. It is important to get all the other cemeteries "camera preserved." You can see the need and call for committee volunteers. You can do the following things to help: (1) Plan to have your family's cemetery digitally photographed, (2) Take existing photos, crop, and rename them, (3) Take existing cropped photos, and create an index, (4) Participate in cleaning stones in preparation for photography. YOU DO NOT have to be a member of ETGS to help out. Following is the info that is currently in process as well as what is already up on the Anderson County page. CURRENTLY BEING PHOTOGRAPHED: Olive Branch - Brushy Creek - Ben Poppell and Family Mt Olive/Sand Flat - Frankston - Wallace and Beverly Odom Cedar Creek - Elkhart - Wallace and Beverly Odom Our Acre - Elkhart - Wallace and Beverly Odom Post Oak/Original Cedar Creek - Elkhart - Wallace and Beverly Odom Lakeview - Elkhart - Beverly Odom Old Bethel - Frankston - Wallace and Beverly Odom Jesse Parker - Elkhart - Beverly Odom PARTIAL PHOTOS: Judson in Cayuga, thanks to Jo Reynolds Starr, Guiceland, Strong, Tennessee Colony, Pilgrim - Thanks to Karla Lang Bluff Springs - Laura Gregory Calvin Davis - Laura Gregory Calvin Fields Chapel - Yvonne McCutchen Fort Houston - Laura Gregory Calvin Holly Springs - Laura Gregory Calvin Land of Memories - Laura Gregory Calvin Pilgrim - Laura Gregory Calvin Swanson - Laura Gregory Calvin We are interested if the cemetery has an association, meetings, or clean-up get-togethers. Let us know so that we can let others know. We need contact people & numbers, directions and locations of any of the cemeteries. TRAINING WILL BE PROVIDED. Contact Beverly Odom at: bevodom@gmail.com or (903) 825-6896 ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx